ii, p. 439)
considered inversion "a kind of sexual appetite of which very
likely most men possess the germinal possibility." Conolly Norman
(Article "Sexual Perversion," Tuke's _Dictionary of Psychological
Medicine_) also stated that "the sexual passion, at its first
appearance, is always indefinite, and is very easily turned in a
wrong direction," and he apparently accounted for inversion by
this fact, and by the precocity of neurotics. Obici and
Marchesini (_Le 'Amicizie' di collegio_, p. 126) refer to the
indeterminate character of the sexual feelings when they first
begin to develop. A correspondent believes that sexual feelings
are undifferentiated in the early years about puberty, but at the
same time considers that school life is to some extent
responsible; "the holidays," he adds, "are sufficiently long to
counteract it, however, provided the boy has sisters and they
have friends; the change from school fare and work to home
naturally results in a greater surplus of nerve-force, and I
think most boys 'fool about' with servants or their sisters'
friends.
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